Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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Former Co Started FI Joined Sorority but Be "Pinned" down Worked in Aircraft Fa Waiting for Chance to Julia Ledbetter. '40 '(Jotrtna dream hath possessed'": whose obsession. And Julie had ihe pe She wottld probably have t< viously remarkable thing abo feetious good humor. But to i news that she was one of Ih United States picked to fly th the l irieal outcome of a life de College was a means to an studies to get by rather nicely. but her winged mind soared fi It was at Carolina that Julie t, last girls admitted to the ('AA p get her pilot 's license by tle till many hours to her credit. But a flying career was still a dream-and she was a nice y-oung girl just out of college and everyone expected her to do the things nice young girls just out of college do. But one day, Julie chanced upon an advertisement in an aviation maga zine for women to work in an air plane factory in New Jersey. Two years ago, it wasn't quite the accepted thing for young ladies to work in airplane plants. 11er friends tried to frown at Julie's de cision, suggesting that she probably wouldn't have an opportunity to fly anyhow, and her family must have been anything but enthusiastic. Chance To Fly Finally Arrives But it's doubtful whether even greater obstacles than these friendly objections would have stopped her. She went to New Jersey and be fore long cocky little post cards started arriving in Columbia bear ing such proud messages as "I am getting a chance to fly . ." or "I told you I'd get a chance to fly." Julie's wagon was no lunger cadi th bound but was flying far and fast toward her not-so-remote star. Soon after the war began, Julie joined the Army and graduated fro'n Avenger Field with her Army, wings. Then a couple of months with the Ferry Command followed by her ccti-n for traiiiing a; Erst pilot of a Flying Fortress, a triumph which places Julie at the top of her profession. But is it not an even greater personal triumph? For she had accomplished what she perhaps hardly dared dream when she was a college girl poring eagerly over aviation magazines, and doubting whether she had the right to love and nourish her glorious dream. Competes With Best Male Pilots Today Juie is in an army pre combat school. She flie ;ive hours a day, goes to ground school ve hours a day. She competes in this grueling course wvith the army's hest male pilots. She learns radio, bomb ing, gunnery, and navigation. She must know~ every' job of every' man in her ten-man crew, Julie l.edbetter must he a happy girl. 11er step nmuit have the ;pring and con hdence of a person nt ho hat gone a fter wthat they want:-d--an d gotien it. She hat proven her right to her dream. It's not hard to imagine the gl eamii of t rimp hant Florists and CORSAGES - 1428 Main St., Phones: 24620 JOYE EXPERT CLEAN IN' Just a few steps 4 =K: ed Now Pi ring Careei Wouldn't to Earth ctory While Fly lism), is one of those "whom a w1 hole life was domtinated by one rseverence to achieve her goal. toledl yout because the most ob it her was her easy-going, in hose whi1o really knew her. the first sevente ni women in tihe 11-17 Flying Fortress came as oted to1 one thing--flyin,g 1nid. he worked enough at her joined Alpha Delta Pi sorority, ir above those l'olltir e 1lt"'siiits. arted flying She was one o' I he t'og'at. ,ld. alilhoigh site iditn t te she graduated, she had a good ioy that mut flash fromii Julic's eyes when she feels twenty-seven tons of airplane responding to her touch, or the little curl of pride and sa+isfac tion p!aying at the corners of her lips hen she hears the forty-eight hundred horses of her hah roadt their challenge. Happy landings, *Tulie. Taber, Geology Head, Writes On Road Building Dr. Stephen L. Taher, head of the department of geology of the l.niveisity of South Carolina, :-e cently puhli.hed an article in Pub. lic Roads Magazine on "Some Problcn of Road Construction and Maintenance in Alaska." A more detailed account of Doc tor Iaber's research inl frozen ground conditions will appear soon in the Bulletin of the Geological So ciety of .\mer ica. Thse ex ten'tive and ihigly practi cal work in ti fielid done he D)oc tor Taber*has~ come to the a:en tion of th:e \\ar Department, wHeh is using is ftindiings to preparye for opea tios in all areas wthce nn groundl ntay be eticountereci. \ cnt radlio pr ograms dehasg f suthi C;arohna; toa the n:~oans ur enart cited i)raator -I a .r' .\-kant r;arab as onse of I tfac a t' no t i.ah:W ec nti a :s I , I nc. DeCorators UT FLOWERS 24621 Columbia South Colnan BROS. AND DYEING ff of t-he eampus lots Fortre : At Caroli Blue Key To Renew Historic Signs Plaque In Memory Of War Dead To Be Erected The Blue Key Fraternity of th ROTC has as its project this tern the coiniletion and erection, in thi library, of a plaque in memory o those alumni of the University o South Carolina who have died ii the war. The Blue Key Directory, pub. lished by the fraternity, and editec by Jay IIamtett, went to pres: \\'edncsday, December 1 and wil be di'tributed before the Christima: holidays. Regular meetings of the fraternit. are held every Wednesday evening from 7 to 8 in the Law Library I'nder discussion at present is a plan by n\ hich all the historic place itent signs, scattered about the cam. pus, would he renewed and made visible to all. The otficers of The Blue Kev lraternity are: President, Buddy Pennell; % ice-president. lohnny \\'il liats: secretary, Charlie Sloan; treasurer. Othncil \\'ienges. Last se mester Captain R. C. Needham, 1SN. retired, Commandant of Na val Training at the lniversity of Sotith Carolina, Lieutenant Ic Curry, Executive Office, and EIn sign Arthur Fourier, were elected honorary nembers. "I know I speak for all the of ficers and members, as well as my self." said President Buddy Pen nell, "when I say we are all look ing forward to and are confident o1 a very successful semester in every At last students will know what the score 'is! Yes, the stu dents will soon have a central in formation bureau at the Maxcy information desk according to an announcement just released by Betty Varian Crews, occult worthy in charge of answering "who-where-and dhen" prob lems. Students connected with the various campus groups are asked to submit their organization's name, meeting place and time of meeting to the information desk before the close of the week. The data will be used to compile a chart of events-of-the-week for student convenience in locating meetings. Gamecock Takes Second Place in State Contest T hr \\ inthr op Tohn'ionian is ad .indeled the hest newvspape'r in the state, ~unhth l' 1..C. Gamecock runtninig seennd. The N ewherry In dian also ranked fir't among college wveele-. n i an enroilnment of les~ tha;n 600.* and the \\'inthtrop .loturnal achieved! top ipot amnong hierar Thetie a;rd c'!limuaxedl the South (~nuventioni. wvhiib w a- hlcd at Rocuk lii11 the' 2nth and' !1it he .\ l arr, programt dhrector of stationi \\' 1.5., made themu at the banquet at w hich Mam I.at imer. editor ol lie 8;ta te, was- principal 1 .,eaker. I.a imer c quoted Amtb rose E cun/ales formtter editn. of the StMate, and n-ed as h:- kes -note "Above Al!--A.cura " Tii idea wt as carried t hrouighout the entire cmilntnon.a me been 'trensed hs Eat SHACK'S MADE IN COLUMBIA * FRESH DALlY BETTER LIGHT BETTER SIGHT South Carolina Electric & Gas Co. "Look For The Dog" MEH LMAN'S 1427 M ss; na Marshall Turns On The Heat BY KATHERINE JENNINGS Since practically everything els is being frozen this season, ap parently the powers that be hav decided that the journalists (1) o V.S.C. should be likewise. Al through the long hot summer there was one thing that kept us forging ever onward, and that was the thought that when the blesse< winter time would finally conic, we would be warm and cozy, conc what may. \e spent long hours gazing fondly at our beautiful stoves; we loved, cherished and even polishe< them. And when the zero (well, al most) weather finally arrived, we laughed with hysterical scorn a' our less fortunate cohorts who were having chills and frost bite, and with a sweet and secret smile bov cring on our lips, we scurried ovet to Flinn Hall and our beloved stoves. And 'twas then that th< cruel blow fell; for there we found no stoves, no heat, no nothing. We screamed, we bit our finger nails, we rubbed sticks together. We even sent out threat notes. In despera tion, we sent Fearless Freeman as a committee of one to beg the mar shal in his own inimitable way, "Iteat, kind Kelly, give us Heat.' tut to no avail. We are now living up to the most lurid ideas of the journalistic life We sit in our dark, drab, frigir garret office. listening to cold plas. ter fall with dismal thuds, an< plunking on icy typrewriters whih the icy cycles drip from our blue faces and our fingers grow numbel and number. And our last plea t< the heartless ones who have cause< it all is please, please, turn on the heat. Editor's Note-Great is the powet of the pen. We dispatched a copy of Miss Jennings' plea to the mar shal-we now have heat! Reginald Wood, Associated Press correspondent at Columbia, at the opening luncheon as the great pre requisite for any good reporter Latimer illustrated his points say ing that it is important to be ac curate how%ever difficult it is to be so. .r. Furr led the closing discus :imn Sundav afternoon. During the husinesse eion Cnker College in vited the pressmen to convene in the "I.lectric City" in 1944. Jame: Rrockman, former editor of The Gam erck; Cele Roberts, Garne and Black editor, and David Free man, managing editor of The Gamecock, represented '.S.C. he iudges were representatives of the journalism department of the L niversity of North Carolina. China & Gifts Columbia's Largest Hardware Store Lorick & Lowrance * WHY TAK WE P.AY FOR LIFE - HEALTH AND ACC Capital Life & He LESTER L. B 1117 Hampton Street 0 CAROLINA'S MOST | BIHARI'S R I1229 Hampton Street Capital Drug Store 1213 Gervais Phone 8177 I * Excellent Fountain Service Record Headquarters RECORD BAR ~in Street Ensign Arthur Fourier receives con Tom Pitts Heads Student Council 1'om Pitts took the reins of pres idency of the Student Council in a meeting of this bodv on Mlondav night, November 22. The reasons for convening were to decide upon the elect ions of student-hody of ficers and freshman class otiicers. Freshman class elections will be held within the next 2 weeks. There will he a freshman cla-s meeting in the chapel at 2 o'clock Tuesday, December 7. for the purpose of nominating those to run for office. The person elccted will hold his of fice until the following Fehruarv. Student body elections will he held in January and the officers lected will maintain their offices for two semesters. A committee was appointed to decide upon the ap proximate (late of the student body elections. The jturidiction of student coun cil provid;c ii witih legislative pow ers, including the power to hear re ports from and make recommenda, tions to all lniversity committees having student menhers, and from the several Councils, Boards, and Cabinets officially recognized by the student government which handle student affairs such as the Board of Publications, and the Inter-fraterni tv council. It also has the power to recommend the apportionment of student activities money to appro priate such funds as may he other Ohrise unassigned from the fee. Firthermore it has the routine pow ers of investigation and approval of nominations for student officers. Always Open TODDLE HOUSE 1419 Gervais E A CHANCE? EVERYTHING DENT - HOSPITALIZATION alth lnsurance Co. ATES, President Phones: 2-2206 or 2-8828 'OPULAR RESTAURANT ESTAU RANT JEROME BIHARI, Carolina, '32 BEVERAGE COMPANY *ROYAL CROWN COLA 1211 ASSEMBLY STREET McGREGOR'S 138MAIN STREET -Prescriptions * Sodos Cigarettes * Toilet Articles Coil 2-3308 FOR PROMPT DELIER vSEVICeru mission from Captain R. C. Needhai Fourier, Naval F Gets Commissic University Of Illinois Gi Presents By Units Unde Arthur E. Fourier, a member of the Naval Training l nit at the Uni versity recently received his con mttissiont as Ensign. Soon Fourier will leave the campus to take up duties elsewhere. The NROTC unit, with which he worked, presented him with a part ing gift. "It was to express to him our deep regret of his departure and alco our appreciation to him for his help to is." I inniy Guest, hat talion leader, said. The Corsairc, Carolina's crack drill platoon, presented the new En sign with a handsome shock proof. Water-proof wrist watch as their farewell token of appreciation. The platoon was organized and main tained by Fourier and was his pride and joy at Carolina. Ensign Fourier is front Chicago's northwest side. Ife attended Fore man High School in this section. lle played end on the foothall team and I w%as captain in his senior year. li . was also president of his graduating class, and received a civic award, presented to the most outstanding all-around boy in his high school. Fourier attended the University of Illinois, and there again played end. CUT RATE [ 1530 Mai Bull Streeti Specializing in Ki Columbia's COLUMBI LORICK OFFICE EQU * Office * Office Architects and Ei Phone 6176 :-: COLUMB i while R.O.T.C. students look on. I. 0. T. C. Chief, n As Ensign raduate Given r His Control lis football career was cut short by a knee injury. After graduating in 1940 with a B.S. degree in Education, Fourier took over the football mentor's job at Foreman Iiigh. During this year he worked on his master's degree in the evenings at Chicago Teach er's College. It was in January 19.2 that Four. icr joined the Navy for the duration. lie reported immediately to the Norfolk, Va., physical instructor's training camp. Follon ing this, he came to Caro lina, w here his work has been mainly with the ROTC unit. Ensign Fourier is single. He is in terested in dramatics and ornathol- 4 ogy. It is a delight to his palate to <eat himseli >eiore a large plate of spaghetti. The spaghetti eating F.nsign came to the I,niversity to handle the phy sical education program for the original ROTC unit. He collaho rated in this work with the civilian instructors until the group was ab ?'rbed by the \'-12 unit. While on the campus, Fourier has been elected an honorary member of the local Blue Key chapter, and the Clariocophic Literary Society. ~RUG STORE n Street tear Gervais ansas City Steaks Only Diner A DINER -COUCH IPMENT CO. Equipment Supplies 4 mgineers Supplies 924 Gervais St. IA, S. C.